(AP Photo/Jessica Hill)Members of the 2012 class of inductees into the Basketball Hall of Fame, from left, Katrina McClain, Reggie Miller and Don Nelson, sit together during a news conference at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. The three will be inducted into the Hall on Friday.

Many NBA fans remember the 2006-07 Golden St. Warriors for one of the more unexpected playoff runs of the past decade.

But 2012 Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Don Nelson recalled another team high on his enjoyability scale.

"I had fun wherever I went. One of the most fun teams I ever coached was the last team I coached," said Nelson, who retired after coaching the Warriors in 2009-10. "We weren't very good. But I had more fun coaching my last year of coaching, with Steph Curry, Monta (Ellis) and a bunch of guys that weren't drafted.

"I think of the 12 players, we had six undrafted players on the team or D-League players. And those kids just competed so hard every game and gave me everything I wanted. They wanted me to get the (NBA coaching record for) most wins so bad. It was so much fun coaching those guys and being with them. We only won 28 games or something like that, you'd have to check, but it was just one of the real special years I can remember."

By going 26-56, that team reached its goal. Nelson finished his career with 1,335 regular-season wins, the most ever.

Forty-two of those victories came with the aforementioned 2006-07 Warriors.

After sneaking into the playoffs by capturing nine of their last 10 games, those eighth-seeded Warriors--starting two small forwards, Stephen Jackson and Al Harrington, at power forward and center--raced past the No. 1 seed Dallas Mavericks in the first round of the playoffs.

The Warriors eventually bowed to the Utah Jazz in the second round, but not before captivating the Golden St. fan base with the appropriate rallying cry, "We believe."

"We just were so small and so good," explained Nelson of that team, which also heavily featured guards Monta Ellis, Baron Davis and Jason Richardson. "Our small players were just so good and so dominant at what they did. To make it an even playing field we had to play real fast, because we had to score a lot of points to win. We didn't get a lot of rebounds, but we put up a lot of points. Yeah, that was a fun team. But I had fun wherever I coached."